WoW – The Warlock’s Guide
by AMA on May.25, 2010, under Warcraft
My WoW warlock guide should point you down the correct path when you are starting out with a warlock. Warlocks are best known for their shadow magic and fire magic spells and especially for the ability to summon and command minions. The spells available to the warlock class are all focused on inflicting agonizing pain and suffering. They are able to cast powerful spells from a distance, but they are not equipped for fighting up close since they lack any real physical defense. Many talents depend on the utilization of soul shards, which warlocks have to acquire from slaying enemies. The warlock is easily one of the fastest leveling classes and really shines when soloing. They’re typically among the top DPS dealing classes when grouped.
Permissible races for warlocks are Blood Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Orcs, and Undead. The single armor type a warlock can use is of the cloth variety. They can only use wands, staves, swords and daggers as weapons.
Probably the coolest power of the warlock is the summoning of demonic minions (including the Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter, Infernal, Doomguard, and Felguard). Every minion possesses unique advantages that you can exploit. Warlocks possess a wide variety of spells at their disposal including DoT’s, direct damage spells, and many utility spells. They can even conjure up various items and resurrect fallen guild mates by expending soul shards. They’re able to self heal with life tap and/or drain life They also possess several crowd control spells such as fear and howl of terror. One of the commonly overlooked advantages that warlocks have is that they don’t have to spend nearly as much money as other classes do to get mounts (Felsteed and Dreadsteed).
Affliction talents are designed for improving curses, drains and damage over time spells. When farming or raiding, this is an excellent spec for warlocks. This is commonly acknowledged as being the best leveling spec for warlocks.
Demonology talents are geared toward making more effective demons and enhancing your summoning and conjuration spells. This is a good specialization for leveling, PvP, and general survivability. This talent tree can be used during lower levels to help make up for a lack of good spell damage loot.
Destruction talents focus on improving your fire and shadow spells thereby making your warlock a high powered direct damage dealer. For Destruction, it’s all about the high DPS and huge crits. This spec is hard to use at low level so it is more often used after players get to higher levels. It requires a ton of soul shards, is less mana efficient, and is hard to use for people who wish to play solo.
The above World of Warcraft warlock guide is contributed by www.warcraftcodex.com
